Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945John Lewis Gaddis Oxford University Press, 1999 - 398 pages Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 uses biographical techniques to test one of the most important and widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? Many scholars and much conventional wisdom assumes that nuclear deterrence has prevented major power war since the end of the Second World War; this remains a principal tenet of US strategic policy today. Others challenge this assumption, and argue that major war would have been 'obsolete' even without the bomb. This book tests these propositions by examining the careers of ten leading Cold War Statesmen - Harry Truman; John Foster Dulles; Dwight Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Josef Stalin; Nikita Krushchev; Mao Zedong; Winston Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; and Konrad Adenauer - and asking whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. |
Table des matières
Longing for International Control Banking on American | 15 |
Stalin and the Nuclear Age | 39 |
John Foster Dulles Nuclear Schizophrenia | 62 |
Dwight D | 87 |
Bear Any Burden? John F Kennedy and Nuclear Weapons | 120 |
The Nuclear Education of Nikita Khrushchev | 141 |
Winston Churchill and the | 171 |
Maos View of Nuclear | 194 |
Charles de Gaulle and the Nuclear Revolution | 216 |
Defence Diplomat on the Backstage | 236 |
Conclusion | 260 |
Duelling Counterfactuals | 272 |
Notes | 284 |
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